Job Description

We're seeking a hands-on

CTO Advisor

to stabilize reliability (stop regressions, reduce Sev-1s), install a lightweight

SDLC/SRE/MLOps

cadence, and leave behind simple runbooks and dashboards the team can operate.



This is an

advisor

role (not a line-manager): you design gates, coach leads, and facilitate incident and release hygiene.

Type:

Advisor (contract)

Time:

10-20 hrs/week (90 days), then 2-4 hrs/month

Comp:

Equity +

$TMAI

only (no cash)

Reporting to:

CEO

Location:

Austin preferred; open to remote (US/EU/APAC time-zones)

What You'll Do (Responsibilities)

Establish

release gates

in CI/CD (tests/coverage, static checks, feature flags, canary/shadow) and clear

rollback/kill-switch

triggers. Implement

SRE fundamentals

: 3-5

SLOs

(e.g., data freshness, job success rate, API latency/availability, exception closure time) with an

error-budget

policy. Enforce

Change & Exceptions Logs

; drive post-mortems (Sev-1/2) with action items and owners. Pair with Quant to harden

AI index

safety (model/versioning, parity tests, drift/health alerts). Produce concise

runbooks & dashboards

; coach engineering leads; hand back the system.

What You Won't Do (Scope guardrails)

No day-to-day people management or sprint ownership. No wallet signatory or payment approvals. No changes to liquidity or emissions policy (owned by the

$TMAI

council).

Qualifications

Must-have

4+ years

leading engineering in crypto (protocol/DeFi, exchange, market/data infra, or comparable). Proven

SDLC/DevOps/CI-CD

and

SRE

practice (SLOs + error budgets + incident response). Experience shipping data/ML systems or MLOps basics (versioning, parity tests, safe rollout). Excellent technical writing and async collaboration.

Nice-to-have

Smart-contract security/audit handoffs; keys/secrets/multisig hygiene. Prior work with index/market-data pipelines or exchange connectivity.

Success Metrics (first 90 days)

Reliability:

measurable reduction in failures (e.g., Sev-1/MTTR 20%; regression escapes 30%).

Hygiene:

100% prod changes pre-logged; Sev-1 post-mortems with actions 72h; SLOs live and reported monthly.

Adoption:

release gates and runbooks in use by named owners without advisor involvement.

Collaboration

Operating Chair (monthly business review), Quant (AI indices), $TMAI observers (liquidity dependencies), Finance & Controls (audit evidence).

How to Apply

Share:

1) a redacted

SLO

doc you authored 2) a redacted

incident/runbook

you wrote, 3) two sentences on your biggest reliability turnaround and the gate you added afterward.

About Token MetricsToken Metrics builds AI-driven on-chain indices and analytics. Our goal is to make crypto investing simple, reliable, and institution-grade. We're shipping AI-automated indices, integrating with venues like Pendle/DEX/CEX, and preparing for public-markets readiness.